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    The Fruits of the Ollykin Tree: DREAMTIME, #2
    The Fruits of the Ollykin Tree: DREAMTIME, #2
    The Fruits of the Ollykin Tree: DREAMTIME, #2
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    The Fruits of the Ollykin Tree: DREAMTIME, #2

    By Mat Gardener

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    In this particular story, Olly goes to see a pantomime called “Jack and the Beanstalk;” this fired up his imagination about growing things.     As he lay in his bed that night, he had an amazing series of dreams.  In those dreams, Olly dreamt  about a series of trees and about a special magic tree called the Ollykin tree.  This led him to have a series of other exciting dreams too. In these later dreams, he became the something of a local hero. He became the owner of a large farm and he was able to feed the world.This story aims to show young readers how important it is to grow and to nurture living things.  With so many young people now living and growing up in towns and cities few of them get to see how their food is produced.  It is also a sad fact that few are aware of the environmental costs to the planet when food is grown a long way from those that need it.  This book also makes readers aware of the importance of self-sufficiency in respect to preventing local food shortages.

    The story also points out the importance of protecting important agricultural land to produce food for local communities.

    This book is also designed to make young people aware of the suffering of others in far away countries where climate change and seasonal abnormalities damage and destroy crop yields.  It seeks to show how those reliant upon such crops can find themselves on the verge of starvation.  The story also, highlights the importance of overseas assistance in some cases; not just on a short-term aid basis, but in helping those affected by climate based food shortages, to adjust and to produce hardier crops.  
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMat Gardener
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9781498956406
    The Fruits of the Ollykin Tree: DREAMTIME, #2
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    Mat Gardener

    Mat Gardener is a UK based author with a background in complimentary therapies. He also has a very keen interest in the welfare of young people and environmental/conservation issues.  Both of these interests, prompted him to write three series of books aimed at keeping young people safe from physical and emotional harm. The author is  also seeking to highlight conservation issues and social welfare issues such as bullying,  and low self esteem.  Each book in the series is designed to inspire and give hope to young readers/listeners wherever possible, especially where they face difficulties in life. This story is taken from the DREAMTIME book series.  Other titles from this series are also available.

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      The Fruits of the Ollykin Tree - Mat Gardener

      Introduction

      After a trip to see a pantomime called Jack and the Beanstalk, a young boy called Olly had an amazing series of dreams as he lay in his bed that night. In those dreams, he dreamt about a special magic tree called the Ollykin tree.  This led him to have a series of other exciting dreams.  In the last of his dreams, Olly became something of a local hero.  He also came to realise just how important it is to be able to grow our own food, rather than simply relying upon others grow to grow it for us

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      The Christmas Treat

      One night, young Olly had a dream about a tree; a very strange tree as it turned out.  With Christmas having just gone it was pantomime season, and so earlier that day he’d been taken to the theatre to see Jack and the Beanstalk.  Being a very friendly boy who liked people, Olly always enjoyed pantomimes, especially where funny things happened on the stage.  Whenever prompted by the performers on stage, Olly would be one of the first to join in with the chorus; especially where someone was being chased. 

      ‘He’s behind you,’ Olly would shout as loud as he could when the villain appeared.  Then to everyone’s amusement, the man that was being chased would shout out, "Oh no he isn’t."

      ‘Oh yes he is,’ Olly and the rest of the audience would then reply.  Suddenly the one who was being chased would look behind him and quickly run off stage, closely followed by the person chasing after him.  Everyone in the audience would then roar with laughter and the next scene of the play would take place.  Whilst Olly liked all pantomimes, this particular show of "Jack and the Beanstalk" was very special.  The beanstalk itself impressed Olly greatly because he liked trees, plants and flowers. 

      Olly knew all about growing plants and flowers as a result of watching his older sister tending to her flower garden.  On many occasions, Olly had watched his sister Sarah, watering and tending her plants; smelling and picking the many blooms on her flowers, and then making them into a beautiful display for her mother.  Having gathered a nice bunch of flowers together, Sarah would then take them into the house and put them in a vase on the kitchen table, so that her mother would see them when she got home from work.  "Oh thank you; how beautiful they are," Mrs Jackson would then tell Sarah very gratefully.

      Sarah didn’t just grow flowers though!  She also used to grow vegetables in big buckets too.  As well as growing vegetables such as lettuce and carrots, she also had a tub with some long canes in it, in which she used to grow her runner beans. 

      Olly was always surprised at how quickly Sarah’s beans grew and how tall they got as they climbed up the canes during the summer months.  Watching the pantomime about Jack and the Beanstalk reminded Olly of his sister’s runner beans, and made him wish that he had a garden of his own to look after.

      Just for a second while he was watching the pantomime, Olly thought what it would be like having a garden of his own. 

      Olly pictured himself planting a collection of seeds in some soil.  He then imagined himself waiting patiently for them to grow.  This sequence of thoughts was to reoccur later that night as Olly lay in his bed, with some very remarkable results. In Olly’s case, his imaginary seeds were to grow into a wide range of trees.  One of the trees in particular would prove to be a very special tree, with all sorts of amazing fruits on it.

      When Olly came back from the theatre that night, having just seen Jack and the Beanstalk, he went to the fruit bowl to get some nuts. 

      With Jack and the Beanstalk still very much in his thoughts, Olly remembered how the seed in the story had grown into the giant beanstalk.  This made him think about the last few nuts in the fruit bowl and he began to wonder what they would turn into if he were to plant them. 

      Looking for an answer to his question about what the various nuts in the bottom of the fruit bowl would turn into, Olly took one of the nuts over to his mother and asked, ‘what would happen if I planted this?  If it grew; what would it grow into?’ he asked.

      Realising that Olly had a hazel nut in his

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